The car headlights

A lesson taught by a friend of mine when he was trying to cheer me up over some negative thoughts i used to have. I thought it makes perfect sense. Oh yea, he used to drive that vintage volvo so i'm using it to play along with that imagination.

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You are driving on the road with no street lights and barely a car can be seen in the middle of night. Perhaps it's the longest dark desert highway you've ever be on. You're alone in the driver seat of that vintage Volvo, not even a building or house you can see but only dry grasslands and infinity darkness on the either side of the road and occasionally drive past some rocky mountains as wind hitting against the window.

As the visibility getting poorer you're forced to turn on the headlights to see the roadway clearly. Now the time has come for you to choose which headlights are better in this occasion. Low beam headlights, the least bright light that only makes you focus on the short range distance and you have completely no idea what is coming your way as your car moving further. Here, redirect your thought to a different perspective , says life,  your life is heading to nowhere and you're just following your intuition and blindly take the path leading somewhere you not know. You only live in the present and focus on what you're doing without thinking much about things further down the path, 'was' and 'could' never exist in your dictionary, congratulation, now you are obviously another happier person in this world.

You know what needs to be done at the present without worrying things that probably will never happen in future. 

Focus on what you can see, at least, you are happy.

It takes longer time but you will eventually get there.

Back to the road, sitting still in the car, to avoid running into any risk of danger, you decide to use a high beam now with a long range focus, that you can't wait to see what lies ahead of you but one thing, you must have forgotten the 50 feets infront of the car when the vehicle is moving. It lights up a longer distance giving you a bigger picture ahead of the road but the importance of the present moment is what people often scarcely aware. But no matter how, the wider range still has a limit and can't show you the destination you are heading. Instead of appreciating what you're having and being grateful and thankful for things you have been given, you are complaining the maximum speed the Volvo can go as you wonder what's waiting infront of you. The bigger picture ahead is important but what if anything happens within the 50 feets you don't have enough time to prevent every possible danger and road bumps causing you to swerve off the road and the car crashes, and now, you will never reach the destination.

You spend most of the time worrying about things that probably will never happen. 

You're focusing on something that's too far away and apparently oblivious of things you're presently hold.

In the end, you gain nothing.

Either way you will eventually reach the destination, the end of the highway.

In life, you're always given an option to choose. 

The highway..